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Conferences in Q4

Submitted by Michael Meskes on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 01:00

Together with members of almost all credativ offices world-wide I travelled to Madrid in October to attend PGConf Europe, the most important European PostgreSQL event. The conference, as usual, was greatly organized and had a lot of interesting presentations and thus, was rightfully sold-out. It again brought together a lot of the PostgreSQL community.

My non-technical presentation about whether Open Source is a blessing or a curse attracted a sizeable audience despite starting early. Also we got into a good discussion about some of the points raised which again showed that Open Source in general and PostgreSQL in particular are more and more considered because of their strategic importance.

Then in November I was invited to do a presentation at Open Source India Days 2014 in Bangalore or as it nowadays is called again Bengaluru. I was able to conveniently combine the trip to the conference with a scheduled visit to our office there.

The conference was a very pleasant surprise. Despite being called the largest Open-Source conference in Asia I never made it there before. And, frankly, I was impressed about the size. Maybe not so surprisingly the conference was dominated by presentations about cloud solutions and technology.

I, however, talked about the importance of community for businesses in particular pointing to Debian and PostgreSQL as very successful community projects. And again a large audience listened ini showing again the interest in strategic aspects of Open Source. Due to time constraints we weren't able to do a discussion during the presentation, or even allow questions/answers at the end, but a lot of people caught me afterwards to discuss points or make valuable remarks.